Indian airports world's most-delayed

If you are planning to get trip to India You should have An extra travel time needs to be budgeted to fly from overseas, with Indian airports emerging as the world’s most-delayed airports with most frequent late arrivals into the country in 2008, according to US magazine Forbes.Country’s financial hub Mumbai’s and national capital Delhi airports have grabbed the first and second ranks in terms of late arrivals in the world’s most-delayed airports . “India takes the prize as the country with most frequent late arrivals in our second annual tallying of the world’s most-delayed airports,” Forbes said in its latest report. Topping the list of the world’s most-delayed airport for the second year in a row, Mumbai’s international airport saw just 49.95 per cent of on-time arrivals. While about 58 per cent of its late arrivals in 2008 were delayed by 30 minutes or more, the report said. At New Delhi’s IGI airport, the percentage of on-time arrivals is 50.89 per cent in 2008 and had seen 23.3 million passengers in previous year, based on data from FlightStats, which tracks historical and real-time flight information. The report stated that India was a peculiar case as its biggest airports have undertaken massive construction projects to cope with the country’s rapid growth.The most-delayed airport, Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International, opened a new taxiway in November to reduce the wait time for landing aircraft, while New Delhi’s IGI Airport fully opened a third runway in October.Further, high on the Forbes list of airports with the lowest percentage of on-time arrivals are – Casablanca’s Mohammed V International Airport (54 per cent on time), Orio al Serio Airport near Bergamo, Italy (61 per cent), New York LaGuardia (62 per cent), Birmingham Airport in England (63 per cent) and London’s Luton and Heathrow Airports (both 63 per cent on time).
Besides, a host of European airports are among those on top of the list with delayed departures, they include – Manchester Airport in northern England (49 per cent on time), Venice’s Marco Polo International (54 per cent), Rome’s Fiumicino International (58 per cent), Athens International (61 per cent) and Paris’ Charles DeGaulle International (62 per cent on-time).